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Ramsar Site
The Ramsar Convention is an intergovernmental treaty signed on 2 February 1971 in the city of Ramsar in Iran for the conservation of wetlands. The Ramsar Convention entered into force in China on 31 July 1992. On 4 September 1995, about 1,500 ha of wetland in the Mai Po Inner Deep Bay region was listed as a Ramsar Site, becoming China’s 7th Ramsar Site.
The site consists of a range of wetland habitats from an extensive intertidal mudflat, mangroves, gei wais (tidal shrimp ponds), fishponds and reedbeds. The mosaic of wetland habitats serves as an important over-wintering and refueling station for migratory waterbirds along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (i.e. migrations between the Arctic Russia and Australia). Every year, over 50,000 migratory waterbirds stop by at the site for feeding and resting. These include globally threatened species such as the Black-faced Spoonbill, Collared Crow and Common Pochard.
Together with the fishponds in the Deep Bay area directly outside the Ramsar Site, the whole region offers an extensive wetland habitat for waterbirds, recording over 260 bird species as at 2025, representing over 45% of all the bird species in Hong Kong.
How To Get There
1 | Minibus + Walking |
• Take green minibus No. 36 from Fook Hong Street, Yuen Long, to Tai Sang Wai, then proceed on foot.